You know in Smokey’s defense, he most likely knows exactly how a hotplate works, he probably just severely overestimated the heat resistance of your typical apartment rug compared to that of dirt.

An important thing to note is that the hotplate shading and various bricks on the building are improperly inked. It shall now plague me for the rest of my life and its all your faults for not reading my mind and telling me to fix it before it was too late for me to fix it while I wasn’t lazy.